US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Dec. 30 for "Vehicle computer system and method" (Michigan, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,398, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle computer system and method" was invented by Brian Farrell (Troy, Mich.), John Jen (Carmel, Ind.) and J. David Rosa (Clarkston, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include data processing hardware and memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware. The memory hardware may store instructions that when executed on the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include requesting, via a boot manager of a host module, a hardware security module (HSM) to ver...